Protection for the NHS and schools budgets should be kept in place after the general election, Nick Clegg has insisted.

An invasion of estate agents and bankers has established a new foothold in London and the south east and must be stopped before it causes a new financial crisis, Vince Cable told Liberal Democrat delegates today amid sharp attacks on the Conservatives.

And United Nations weapons inspectors found “clear and convincing” evidence that chemical weapons were used in the deadly attack in Syria that is estimated to have killed more than 1,400 people.

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